1. Yes
2. The same but Spotify usage encourages people to not buy releases and the problem with that is....
3. .... the artists gets fuck all from Spotify royalties. And Spotify make a massive loss each year I think, so the only winners are the listeners.

1/ totally yes
2/ substantially less, but it has nothing to do with Spotify and everything to do with changed circumstances
3/ it's probably the best answer to the industry's woes that anyone has come up with

1. Yeah. I pay £5 a month to have what is basically indistinguishable from a massive itunes library on my computer.
2. Not really any difference. Maybe slightly less.
3. It's an extremely effective way of cutting down on piracy but I don't know if anyone's really making enough money from it. Basically I'm not really in a position to say.